What do you think about this poem?

[absztyfikant]

Sunsets in the mountain will flame and fade
Yet anemones will always flourish
Many a storm will roar and rage
Yet anemones will always newly flame

[usenetposts]

Do you mean sea anemones, or the flowers?

[babiana]

The anemones symbolize the Jewish people, who, through the generations, never
forgot their attachment to the land of Israel.
This is the refrain of Shoshama Damarai ballad "Kalaniyot".

[absztyfikant]

Indeed.

>Shosha-n-a))))))

[absztyfikant]

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[babiana]

In Hebrew kalaniyot means anemones

[hardenfelt]

Maybe I'm an ignorant, but I hate poetry. Simply don't understand it.

[usenetposts]

I still don't get whether we are talking about the flowers or the sea polyps.

[babiana]

We are talking about flowers.
cgi.ebay.com/ISRAE-KALANIOT-Anemones-FLOWER-1992-SILVER-MEDAL_W0QQitemZ130040750392QQihZ003QQcategoryZ3454QQcmdZViewItem

[usenetposts]

Thanks for that. It looks lovely. A pity the seller will not ship.

[babiana]

WHAT SHOSHANA DAMARI DID FOR ISRAEL.
Country Music
by Joseph Braude
Only at TNR Online | Post date 02.16.06

Israel's first lady of song, Shoshana Damari, died on Tuesday in a Tel Aviv
hospital; reportedly her best-loved ballad "Kalaniyot" ("Anemones") played in
her room as she passed away. Damari, whose life began in a humble Yemeni
village, helped through her music to revive the modern Hebrew language. And over
the decades she was an unavoidable presence in Israel's national life: Four
generations of Jews, reenfranchised in their historic homeland, both fell in
love and fought for their lives to the stirring sound of her voice....